Question

How can I extract the hostname from: hostname:/file_name ? For example in ngs.pradhi.com:/upload, I want to extract ngs.pradhi.com from it and test it via ssh.connect.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

The string in your example isn’t a URL, so you won’t be able to use the standard URL module (urlparse) to parse it. Here is how you can do it by hand:

In [43]: path = 'ngs.pradhi.com:/upload'

In [44]: path.split(':')[0]
Out[44]: 'ngs.pradhi.com'

For SSH, take a look at paramiko.